Qualla: New Cumnock https://qualla.com/new-cumnock en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/5/new-cumnock-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: New Cumnock https://qualla.com/new-cumnock New Cumnock: Introduction https://qualla.com/new-cumnock/ Photo credit User:Delluser1992, Public domain. Blind Harry called it Cumno. Five hundred years after the actual events, the wandering Scottish poet placed William Wallace at New Cumnock again and again in his epic life of the patriot, weaving the village into the legend of Scottish independence. 'To the Blak Crag in Cumno past agayne,' Harry wrote, 'His houshauld set with men of mekill mayne, Thre monethis thar he dwellyt in gud rest.' That is to say: Wallace lived three months at his household in Blackcraig, in the upper reaches of the Afton Water, resting from war. In the spring of 1298, fresh from killing the English sheriff of Lanark, Sir William the Guardian of Scotland came home to the hills above New Cumnock.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/5/new-cumnock-wp/gcv5-new-cumnock-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full New Cumnock: Old Roads, Old Names https://qualla.com/new-cumnock/ Photo credit Rosser, Public domain. Roman roads once passed through the area, hinting at a presence even before the village had a name. The first recorded mention came in 1296 when Patrick Dunbar of Comenagh signed the Ragman Roll, the document by which Scottish nobles swore fealty to Edward I of England. In 1509 C...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/5/new-cumnock-wp/gcv5-new-cumnock-old-roads-old-names.mp3 0:06 2 full New Cumnock: Wallace at Blackcraig https://qualla.com/new-cumnock/ Photo credit Stuart Brabbs, CC BY-SA 2.0. In 1296 William Wallace and his men tried to reach Ayrshire from Nithsdale and found the road at Corsencon destroyed. 'At Corssencon the gait was spilt that tide,' Harry wrote. A toll and customs point had stood at Corsencon Hill since 1205, and now the way through it was gone. W...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/5/new-cumnock-wp/gcv5-new-cumnock-wallace-at-blackcraig.mp3 0:06 3 full New Cumnock: Robert Burns and Parnassus Hill https://qualla.com/new-cumnock/ Photo credit Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0. Robert Burns visited New Cumnock often in the late 1780s, making friends in the village and leaving behind plaques on several buildings, most donated by the New Cumnock Burns Club. In 1788 he wrote a poem about Corsencon Hill, the same hill where Wallace's road had been blocked f...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/5/new-cumnock-wp/gcv5-new-cumnock-robert-burns-and-parnassus-hill.mp3 0:06 4 full New Cumnock: Knockshinnoch https://qualla.com/new-cumnock/ Photo credit Scothill, CC BY-SA 3.0. On 7 September 1950, the Knockshinnoch Castle Colliery suffered a catastrophic inrush of moss and water from the surface above. Thirteen miners died. One hundred and sixteen others were trapped underground for days before rescuers reached them through an old, disused level from a...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/5/new-cumnock-wp/gcv5-new-cumnock-knockshinnoch.mp3 0:06 5 full New Cumnock: From Pits to Reservoir https://qualla.com/new-cumnock/ Photo credit Billy McCrorie, CC BY-SA 2.0. Mining shaped New Cumnock from the late 18th century until the 1960s, when the pits closed and the village turned to other livelihoods. Today public transport runs through on the Glasgow South Western Line, with New Cumnock railway station serving Glasgow and Carlisle. The A76 tr...

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